Girls in the Physics Classroom: A Teachers' Guide - Institute of Physics

Acknowledgements ii
Introduction 1
1: Lessons from effective classroom practice 4
1.1 The school culture and ethos 4
1.2 The curriculum and its organisation 5
1.3 Classroom organisation and management 6
1.4 Questions and answers 6
1.5 The use of language 7
1.6 The use of analogy and illustration 8
1.7 Relevance 9
2: Lessons from research 11
2.1 The student perspective 11
2.2 The curriculum perspective 14
2.3 The teacher perspective 18
2.4 The assessment perspective 19
3: Lessons from videos 23
3.1 Introduction 23
3.2 Getting and using the videos 23
3.3 Summary of programme content 23
4: Appendices 26
4.1 Analysis of take-up of physics post-16 by girls in a sample of 1500 schools 26
4.2 Exemplar questionnaires 27
4.3 Checklist: how inclusive is your physics teaching? 30
4.4 Suggested activities to accompany videos 31